Pas de deux with Veronese at the Venice Dance Biennale

The city’s dance festival makes the most of its spectacular spaces – not least with Shobana Jeyasingh’s Outlander, which responds to the Renaissance masterpiece The Wedding at Cana A blast of rock music shatters the ancient calm of the Campo San Trovaso, galvanising eight performers into a lunging, thrusting, stamping mesh of dance. Passing gondolas pause to stare, dogs bark, indignant seagulls swerve upwards into the sky as Emanuel Gat’s new work, Venice, reconfigures a